Rhyssoplax komaiana ( Is. & Iw. Taki, 1929 )

Sirenko, Boris I. & Zhang, Junlong, 2019, Chitons (Mollusca: Polyplacophora) of Hainan Island and vicinity, South China Sea, Zootaxa 4564 (1), pp. 1-40 : 8-9

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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4564.1.1

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5922072

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scientific name

Rhyssoplax komaiana ( Is. & Iw. Taki, 1929 )
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Rhyssoplax komaiana ( Is. & Iw. Taki, 1929) View in CoL

( Fig. 2E View FIGURE 2 )

Chiton komaianus Is. & Iw. Taki 1929: 145 View in CoL , figs 22–31, pl. 2, fig. 6. Chiton (Rhyssoplax) venusta ; Leloup 1952: 56, text-fig. 19, pl. 5, fig. 1, pl. 6, fig. 2 (non Chiton venusta Hull, 1923 ). Rhyssoplax komaiana View in CoL ; Is. Taki 1962: 45: Iw. Taki 1964b: 411; Bullock & Harper 1994: 39, pls. 4 B, 6 C, 7 C–D, 8B; Saito

1998: 154; 2000: 19, pl. 9, fig. 2; 2017: 50, 734, pl. 6, fig. 9; Hasegawa et al. 2001: 3; Sirenko 2012: 69, pl. 12 E; figs 12,

13. Chiton (Rhyssoplax) komaianus ; Kaas & Van Belle 1980: 70; 1998: 104; Kaas et al. 2006: 200–203, fig. 79, map 36

(bibliography and synonymy).

Type material. Kaas et al. (2006) reported that the type is in ZICS, but we did not find this institute or type . Type locality. Japan, Prov. Kii (Wakayama Prefecture), Seto. Material examined. South China Sea , Hainan Island. 57-1051, 1 spm, BL 12 mm; stn. 4, 19°38’12’’N ,

111°01’52’’E, intertidal pool, on rocks, 6 spms, BL 3.0–6.0 mm, 14.11.2016, leg. B. Sirenko; stn. 6, 19°38’12’’N,

111°01′52’’E, depth 2–3 m, on stones, 1 spm, BL 16.0 mm, 14.11.2016, leg. B. Sirenko; stn. 10, 18°23’17’’N, 109°21’59’’E, SCUBA, depth 2–3 m, on stones, 1 spm, BL 5.0 mm, 17.11.2016, leg. B. Sirenko GoogleMaps ; stn. 13, 18°12’09’’N, 109°29’40’’E, depth 1–3 m, on stones and old corals, 2 spms, BL 3.0–10.0 mm, 15.11.2016, leg. B. Sirenko; stn. 16, 18°12’09’’N, 109°29′40’’E, depth 2–3 m, in sand, 3 intermediate valves, 19.11.2016, leg. B. Sirenko; stn. 17, 18°16’30’’N, 109°43’26’’E, SCUBA depth 3–4 m, on stones, 1 spm, BL 3.0 mm, 20.11.2016, leg. B. Sirenko GoogleMaps ; stn. 26, 18°11’46’’N, 109°29’40’’E, intertidal–1.5 m, on stones, 4 spms, BL 5.0–28.0 mm, 15.11.2016, leg. B. Sirenko, S. Grebelniy.

Distribution. Hong Kong, Hainan Island and South Vietnam, South Japan. Bullock (1988) states that it lives in Malaya, Philippines and possibly south of the Admiralty Islands as well.

Remarks. Rhyssoplax komaiana is one of the abundant chitons of Hainan Island.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Mollusca

Class

Polyplacophora

Order

Chitonida

Family

Chitonidae

Genus

Rhyssoplax

Loc

Rhyssoplax komaiana ( Is. & Iw. Taki, 1929 )

Sirenko, Boris I. & Zhang, Junlong 2019
2019
Loc

Chiton komaianus

Bullock, R. C. & Harper, K. D. 1994: 39
Taki, Iw. 1964: 411
Taki, Is. 1962: 45
Leloup, E. 1952: 56
Taki, Is. & Taki, Iw. 1929: 145
1929
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